❓ Question praises the Minister for Health regarding a decision about the WA Country Health Service and the Port Hedland Hospital. The Minister confirms a contract for a new hospital, detailing costs and expanded services.
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PORT HEDLAND HOSPITAL
Can the minister tell this house how he has managed to become today, in my eyes, the greatest Minister for Health of all time in Western Australia, as a result of a decision that has been made by the state government regarding the WA Country Health Service? Mr J.A. McGINTY
Can the minister tell this house how he has managed to become today, in my eyes, the greatest Minister for Health of all time in Western Australia, as a result of a decision that has been made by the state government regarding the WA Country Health Service? Mr J.A. McGINTY
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I thank the member—who represents most of the Pilbara region in this state, and certainly the town of Port Hedland—for his question. The government has this week signed a contract with Doric Construction Group to build a new Port Hedland hospital. Work on that project will start next month. I know that the member who represents Port Hedland will be delighted with that news. Dr G.G. Jacobs : What about the hospital in my area? The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Roe to order for the third and final time. Mr J.A. McGINTY : This will bring the total cost of the new Port Hedland hospital to $153 million. That is a massive investment in country health services that will ensure that Pilbara residents are able to receive an expanded range of treatments in their local region without the need to travel to Perth for that treatment. We have added an extra $24.4 million to the pre-tender estimate. The figure of $153 million that I have just given includes the already completed stage 1 of the new Port Hedland hospital. That is the aged care facilities, which were built at a cost of $14.65 million. The new Port Hedland Regional Resource Centre will be bigger and better than the old hospital it will replace. As members know, under the government’s health reform plan, health facilities in each of the six major regional centres will be enormously upgraded to enable people to be treated in the regions. The new Port Hedland hospital will have more beds, more emergency department treatment bays and a range of allied and outpatient services that will ensure that people who live in the Pilbara region are able to receive their health care treatment in that region, close to home. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will be particularly delighted, given the issue that he raised with me recently, to know that the new hospital will have 64 beds, compared with the old hospital, which has 49 beds. This will include two labour delivery rooms, each with a private en-suite, and an additional dialysis chair, taking the total to nine, with a further two chairs allocated for future growth. In addition, and very importantly, the emergency department will be expanded by seven treatment bays, to a total of 15. That will comprise 13 treatment bays and two resuscitation rooms. We will also, as part of the implementation of this government’s policy on childcare facilities, be building for the staff of the hospital an on-site childcare centre. This is part of a $600 million capital works program designed to upgrade country hospitals the length and breadth of Western Australia. This will be our newest and best hospital.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: I thank the member—who represents most of the Pilbara region in this state, and certainly the town of Port Hedland—for his question. The government has this week signed a contract with Doric Construction Group to build a new Port Hedland hospital. Work on that project will start next month. I know that the member who represents Port Hedland will be delighted with that news. Dr G.G. Jacobs : What about the hospital in my area? The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Roe to order for the third and final time. Mr J.A. McGINTY : This will bring the total cost of the new Port Hedland hospital to $153 million. That is a massive investment in country health services that will ensure that Pilbara residents are able to receive an expanded range of treatments in their local region without the need to travel to Perth for that treatment. We have added an extra $24.4 million to the pre-tender estimate. The figure of $153 million that I have just given includes the already completed stage 1 of the new Port Hedland hospital. That is the aged care facilities, which were built at a cost of $14.65 million. The new Port Hedland Regional Resource Centre will be bigger and better than the old hospital it will replace. As members know, under the government’s health reform plan, health facilities in each of the six major regional centres will be enormously upgraded to enable people to be treated in the regions. The new Port Hedland hospital will have more beds, more emergency department treatment bays and a range of allied and outpatient services that will ensure that people who live in the Pilbara region are able to receive their health care treatment in that region, close to home. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will be particularly delighted, given the issue that he raised with me recently, to know that the new hospital will have 64 beds, compared with the old hospital, which has 49 beds. This will include two labour delivery rooms, each with a private en-suite, and an additional dialysis chair, taking the total to nine, with a further two chairs allocated for future growth. In addition, and very importantly, the emergency department will be expanded by seven treatment bays, to a total of 15. That will comprise 13 treatment bays and two resuscitation rooms. We will also, as part of the implementation of this government’s policy on childcare facilities, be building for the staff of the hospital an on-site childcare centre. This is part of a $600 million capital works program designed to upgrade country hospitals the length and breadth of Western Australia. This will be our newest and best hospital.
I thank the member—who represents most of the Pilbara region in this state, and certainly the town of Port Hedland—for his question. The government has this week signed a contract with Doric Construction Group to build a new Port Hedland hospital. Work on that project will start next month. I know that the member who represents Port Hedland will be delighted with that news. Dr G.G. Jacobs : What about the hospital in my area? The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Roe to order for the third and final time. Mr J.A. McGINTY : This will bring the total cost of the new Port Hedland hospital to $153 million. That is a massive investment in country health services that will ensure that Pilbara residents are able to receive an expanded range of treatments in their local region without the need to travel to Perth for that treatment. We have added an extra $24.4 million to the pre-tender estimate. The figure of $153 million that I have just given includes the already completed stage 1 of the new Port Hedland hospital. That is the aged care facilities, which were built at a cost of $14.65 million. The new Port Hedland Regional Resource Centre will be bigger and better than the old hospital it will replace. As members know, under the government’s health reform plan, health facilities in each of the six major regional centres will be enormously upgraded to enable people to be treated in the regions. The new Port Hedland hospital will have more beds, more emergency department treatment bays and a range of allied and outpatient services that will ensure that people who live in the Pilbara region are able to receive their health care treatment in that region, close to home. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will be particularly delighted, given the issue that he raised with me recently, to know that the new hospital will have 64 beds, compared with the old hospital, which has 49 beds. This will include two labour delivery rooms, each with a private en-suite, and an additional dialysis chair, taking the total to nine, with a further two chairs allocated for future growth. In addition, and very importantly, the emergency department will be expanded by seven treatment bays, to a total of 15. That will comprise 13 treatment bays and two resuscitation rooms. We will also, as part of the implementation of this government’s policy on childcare facilities, be building for the staff of the hospital an on-site childcare centre. This is part of a $600 million capital works program designed to upgrade country hospitals the length and breadth of Western Australia. This will be our newest and best hospital.
Dr G.G. Jacobs : What about the hospital in my area? The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Roe to order for the third and final time. Mr J.A. McGINTY : This will bring the total cost of the new Port Hedland hospital to $153 million. That is a massive investment in country health services that will ensure that Pilbara residents are able to receive an expanded range of treatments in their local region without the need to travel to Perth for that treatment. We have added an extra $24.4 million to the pre-tender estimate. The figure of $153 million that I have just given includes the already completed stage 1 of the new Port Hedland hospital. That is the aged care facilities, which were built at a cost of $14.65 million. The new Port Hedland Regional Resource Centre will be bigger and better than the old hospital it will replace. As members know, under the government’s health reform plan, health facilities in each of the six major regional centres will be enormously upgraded to enable people to be treated in the regions. The new Port Hedland hospital will have more beds, more emergency department treatment bays and a range of allied and outpatient services that will ensure that people who live in the Pilbara region are able to receive their health care treatment in that region, close to home. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will be particularly delighted, given the issue that he raised with me recently, to know that the new hospital will have 64 beds, compared with the old hospital, which has 49 beds. This will include two labour delivery rooms, each with a private en-suite, and an additional dialysis chair, taking the total to nine, with a further two chairs allocated for future growth. In addition, and very importantly, the emergency department will be expanded by seven treatment bays, to a total of 15. That will comprise 13 treatment bays and two resuscitation rooms. We will also, as part of the implementation of this government’s policy on childcare facilities, be building for the staff of the hospital an on-site childcare centre. This is part of a $600 million capital works program designed to upgrade country hospitals the length and breadth of Western Australia. This will be our newest and best hospital.
The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Roe to order for the third and final time. Mr J.A. McGINTY : This will bring the total cost of the new Port Hedland hospital to $153 million. That is a massive investment in country health services that will ensure that Pilbara residents are able to receive an expanded range of treatments in their local region without the need to travel to Perth for that treatment. We have added an extra $24.4 million to the pre-tender estimate. The figure of $153 million that I have just given includes the already completed stage 1 of the new Port Hedland hospital. That is the aged care facilities, which were built at a cost of $14.65 million. The new Port Hedland Regional Resource Centre will be bigger and better than the old hospital it will replace. As members know, under the government’s health reform plan, health facilities in each of the six major regional centres will be enormously upgraded to enable people to be treated in the regions. The new Port Hedland hospital will have more beds, more emergency department treatment bays and a range of allied and outpatient services that will ensure that people who live in the Pilbara region are able to receive their health care treatment in that region, close to home. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will be particularly delighted, given the issue that he raised with me recently, to know that the new hospital will have 64 beds, compared with the old hospital, which has 49 beds. This will include two labour delivery rooms, each with a private en-suite, and an additional dialysis chair, taking the total to nine, with a further two chairs allocated for future growth. In addition, and very importantly, the emergency department will be expanded by seven treatment bays, to a total of 15. That will comprise 13 treatment bays and two resuscitation rooms. We will also, as part of the implementation of this government’s policy on childcare facilities, be building for the staff of the hospital an on-site childcare centre. This is part of a $600 million capital works program designed to upgrade country hospitals the length and breadth of Western Australia. This will be our newest and best hospital.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : This will bring the total cost of the new Port Hedland hospital to $153 million. That is a massive investment in country health services that will ensure that Pilbara residents are able to receive an expanded range of treatments in their local region without the need to travel to Perth for that treatment. We have added an extra $24.4 million to the pre-tender estimate. The figure of $153 million that I have just given includes the already completed stage 1 of the new Port Hedland hospital. That is the aged care facilities, which were built at a cost of $14.65 million. The new Port Hedland Regional Resource Centre will be bigger and better than the old hospital it will replace. As members know, under the government’s health reform plan, health facilities in each of the six major regional centres will be enormously upgraded to enable people to be treated in the regions. The new Port Hedland hospital will have more beds, more emergency department treatment bays and a range of allied and outpatient services that will ensure that people who live in the Pilbara region are able to receive their health care treatment in that region, close to home. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will be particularly delighted, given the issue that he raised with me recently, to know that the new hospital will have 64 beds, compared with the old hospital, which has 49 beds. This will include two labour delivery rooms, each with a private en-suite, and an additional dialysis chair, taking the total to nine, with a further two chairs allocated for future growth. In addition, and very importantly, the emergency department will be expanded by seven treatment bays, to a total of 15. That will comprise 13 treatment bays and two resuscitation rooms. We will also, as part of the implementation of this government’s policy on childcare facilities, be building for the staff of the hospital an on-site childcare centre. This is part of a $600 million capital works program designed to upgrade country hospitals the length and breadth of Western Australia. This will be our newest and best hospital.
The new Port Hedland Regional Resource Centre will be bigger and better than the old hospital it will replace. As members know, under the government’s health reform plan, health facilities in each of the six major regional centres will be enormously upgraded to enable people to be treated in the regions. The new Port Hedland hospital will have more beds, more emergency department treatment bays and a range of allied and outpatient services that will ensure that people who live in the Pilbara region are able to receive their health care treatment in that region, close to home. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will be particularly delighted, given the issue that he raised with me recently, to know that the new hospital will have 64 beds, compared with the old hospital, which has 49 beds. This will include two labour delivery rooms, each with a private en-suite, and an additional dialysis chair, taking the total to nine, with a further two chairs allocated for future growth. In addition, and very importantly, the emergency department will be expanded by seven treatment bays, to a total of 15. That will comprise 13 treatment bays and two resuscitation rooms. We will also, as part of the implementation of this government’s policy on childcare facilities, be building for the staff of the hospital an on-site childcare centre. This is part of a $600 million capital works program designed to upgrade country hospitals the length and breadth of Western Australia. This will be our newest and best hospital.
This is part of a $600 million capital works program designed to upgrade country hospitals the length and breadth of Western Australia. This will be our newest and best hospital.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: I thank the member—who represents most of the Pilbara region in this state, and certainly the town of Port Hedland—for his question. The government has this week signed a contract with Doric Construction Group to build a new Port Hedland hospital. Work on that project will start next month. I know that the member who represents Port Hedland will be delighted with that news. Dr G.G. Jacobs : What about the hospital in my area? The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Roe to order for the third and final time. Mr J.A. McGINTY : This will bring the total cost of the new Port Hedland hospital to $153 million. That is a massive investment in country health services that will ensure that Pilbara residents are able to receive an expanded range of treatments in their local region without the need to travel to Perth for that treatment. We have added an extra $24.4 million to the pre-tender estimate. The figure of $153 million that I have just given includes the already completed stage 1 of the new Port Hedland hospital. That is the aged care facilities, which were built at a cost of $14.65 million. The new Port Hedland Regional Resource Centre will be bigger and better than the old hospital it will replace. As members know, under the government’s health reform plan, health facilities in each of the six major regional centres will be enormously upgraded to enable people to be treated in the regions. The new Port Hedland hospital will have more beds, more emergency department treatment bays and a range of allied and outpatient services that will ensure that people who live in the Pilbara region are able to receive their health care treatment in that region, close to home. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will be particularly delighted, given the issue that he raised with me recently, to know that the new hospital will have 64 beds, compared with the old hospital, which has 49 beds. This will include two labour delivery rooms, each with a private en-suite, and an additional dialysis chair, taking the total to nine, with a further two chairs allocated for future growth. In addition, and very importantly, the emergency department will be expanded by seven treatment bays, to a total of 15. That will comprise 13 treatment bays and two resuscitation rooms. We will also, as part of the implementation of this government’s policy on childcare facilities, be building for the staff of the hospital an on-site childcare centre. This is part of a $600 million capital works program designed to upgrade country hospitals the length and breadth of Western Australia. This will be our newest and best hospital.
I thank the member—who represents most of the Pilbara region in this state, and certainly the town of Port Hedland—for his question. The government has this week signed a contract with Doric Construction Group to build a new Port Hedland hospital. Work on that project will start next month. I know that the member who represents Port Hedland will be delighted with that news. Dr G.G. Jacobs : What about the hospital in my area? The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Roe to order for the third and final time. Mr J.A. McGINTY : This will bring the total cost of the new Port Hedland hospital to $153 million. That is a massive investment in country health services that will ensure that Pilbara residents are able to receive an expanded range of treatments in their local region without the need to travel to Perth for that treatment. We have added an extra $24.4 million to the pre-tender estimate. The figure of $153 million that I have just given includes the already completed stage 1 of the new Port Hedland hospital. That is the aged care facilities, which were built at a cost of $14.65 million. The new Port Hedland Regional Resource Centre will be bigger and better than the old hospital it will replace. As members know, under the government’s health reform plan, health facilities in each of the six major regional centres will be enormously upgraded to enable people to be treated in the regions. The new Port Hedland hospital will have more beds, more emergency department treatment bays and a range of allied and outpatient services that will ensure that people who live in the Pilbara region are able to receive their health care treatment in that region, close to home. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will be particularly delighted, given the issue that he raised with me recently, to know that the new hospital will have 64 beds, compared with the old hospital, which has 49 beds. This will include two labour delivery rooms, each with a private en-suite, and an additional dialysis chair, taking the total to nine, with a further two chairs allocated for future growth. In addition, and very importantly, the emergency department will be expanded by seven treatment bays, to a total of 15. That will comprise 13 treatment bays and two resuscitation rooms. We will also, as part of the implementation of this government’s policy on childcare facilities, be building for the staff of the hospital an on-site childcare centre. This is part of a $600 million capital works program designed to upgrade country hospitals the length and breadth of Western Australia. This will be our newest and best hospital.
Dr G.G. Jacobs : What about the hospital in my area? The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Roe to order for the third and final time. Mr J.A. McGINTY : This will bring the total cost of the new Port Hedland hospital to $153 million. That is a massive investment in country health services that will ensure that Pilbara residents are able to receive an expanded range of treatments in their local region without the need to travel to Perth for that treatment. We have added an extra $24.4 million to the pre-tender estimate. The figure of $153 million that I have just given includes the already completed stage 1 of the new Port Hedland hospital. That is the aged care facilities, which were built at a cost of $14.65 million. The new Port Hedland Regional Resource Centre will be bigger and better than the old hospital it will replace. As members know, under the government’s health reform plan, health facilities in each of the six major regional centres will be enormously upgraded to enable people to be treated in the regions. The new Port Hedland hospital will have more beds, more emergency department treatment bays and a range of allied and outpatient services that will ensure that people who live in the Pilbara region are able to receive their health care treatment in that region, close to home. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will be particularly delighted, given the issue that he raised with me recently, to know that the new hospital will have 64 beds, compared with the old hospital, which has 49 beds. This will include two labour delivery rooms, each with a private en-suite, and an additional dialysis chair, taking the total to nine, with a further two chairs allocated for future growth. In addition, and very importantly, the emergency department will be expanded by seven treatment bays, to a total of 15. That will comprise 13 treatment bays and two resuscitation rooms. We will also, as part of the implementation of this government’s policy on childcare facilities, be building for the staff of the hospital an on-site childcare centre. This is part of a $600 million capital works program designed to upgrade country hospitals the length and breadth of Western Australia. This will be our newest and best hospital.
The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Roe to order for the third and final time. Mr J.A. McGINTY : This will bring the total cost of the new Port Hedland hospital to $153 million. That is a massive investment in country health services that will ensure that Pilbara residents are able to receive an expanded range of treatments in their local region without the need to travel to Perth for that treatment. We have added an extra $24.4 million to the pre-tender estimate. The figure of $153 million that I have just given includes the already completed stage 1 of the new Port Hedland hospital. That is the aged care facilities, which were built at a cost of $14.65 million. The new Port Hedland Regional Resource Centre will be bigger and better than the old hospital it will replace. As members know, under the government’s health reform plan, health facilities in each of the six major regional centres will be enormously upgraded to enable people to be treated in the regions. The new Port Hedland hospital will have more beds, more emergency department treatment bays and a range of allied and outpatient services that will ensure that people who live in the Pilbara region are able to receive their health care treatment in that region, close to home. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will be particularly delighted, given the issue that he raised with me recently, to know that the new hospital will have 64 beds, compared with the old hospital, which has 49 beds. This will include two labour delivery rooms, each with a private en-suite, and an additional dialysis chair, taking the total to nine, with a further two chairs allocated for future growth. In addition, and very importantly, the emergency department will be expanded by seven treatment bays, to a total of 15. That will comprise 13 treatment bays and two resuscitation rooms. We will also, as part of the implementation of this government’s policy on childcare facilities, be building for the staff of the hospital an on-site childcare centre. This is part of a $600 million capital works program designed to upgrade country hospitals the length and breadth of Western Australia. This will be our newest and best hospital.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : This will bring the total cost of the new Port Hedland hospital to $153 million. That is a massive investment in country health services that will ensure that Pilbara residents are able to receive an expanded range of treatments in their local region without the need to travel to Perth for that treatment. We have added an extra $24.4 million to the pre-tender estimate. The figure of $153 million that I have just given includes the already completed stage 1 of the new Port Hedland hospital. That is the aged care facilities, which were built at a cost of $14.65 million. The new Port Hedland Regional Resource Centre will be bigger and better than the old hospital it will replace. As members know, under the government’s health reform plan, health facilities in each of the six major regional centres will be enormously upgraded to enable people to be treated in the regions. The new Port Hedland hospital will have more beds, more emergency department treatment bays and a range of allied and outpatient services that will ensure that people who live in the Pilbara region are able to receive their health care treatment in that region, close to home. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will be particularly delighted, given the issue that he raised with me recently, to know that the new hospital will have 64 beds, compared with the old hospital, which has 49 beds. This will include two labour delivery rooms, each with a private en-suite, and an additional dialysis chair, taking the total to nine, with a further two chairs allocated for future growth. In addition, and very importantly, the emergency department will be expanded by seven treatment bays, to a total of 15. That will comprise 13 treatment bays and two resuscitation rooms. We will also, as part of the implementation of this government’s policy on childcare facilities, be building for the staff of the hospital an on-site childcare centre. This is part of a $600 million capital works program designed to upgrade country hospitals the length and breadth of Western Australia. This will be our newest and best hospital.
The new Port Hedland Regional Resource Centre will be bigger and better than the old hospital it will replace. As members know, under the government’s health reform plan, health facilities in each of the six major regional centres will be enormously upgraded to enable people to be treated in the regions. The new Port Hedland hospital will have more beds, more emergency department treatment bays and a range of allied and outpatient services that will ensure that people who live in the Pilbara region are able to receive their health care treatment in that region, close to home. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will be particularly delighted, given the issue that he raised with me recently, to know that the new hospital will have 64 beds, compared with the old hospital, which has 49 beds. This will include two labour delivery rooms, each with a private en-suite, and an additional dialysis chair, taking the total to nine, with a further two chairs allocated for future growth. In addition, and very importantly, the emergency department will be expanded by seven treatment bays, to a total of 15. That will comprise 13 treatment bays and two resuscitation rooms. We will also, as part of the implementation of this government’s policy on childcare facilities, be building for the staff of the hospital an on-site childcare centre. This is part of a $600 million capital works program designed to upgrade country hospitals the length and breadth of Western Australia. This will be our newest and best hospital.
This is part of a $600 million capital works program designed to upgrade country hospitals the length and breadth of Western Australia. This will be our newest and best hospital.
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